Yet Alex’s journey is the same as any other hero.

There’s no love triangle - in fact there’s hardly any romance at all - and it’s not weighed down by angst, because the protagonist (Alex) doesn’t have an annoying hero complex to drag her down. I don’t like making such grand comparisons but it’s the best way to describe why I enjoyed Akarnae, because it’s kind of an answer to everything that annoys me about my favorite fantasy fiction. Will Alex risk her entire world–and maybe even her life–to save Medora? (via Goodreads)Īkarnae is like all your favorite parts of Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of The Rings, and X-Men all rolled into one delightfully charming package. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home? She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can’t ignore her fear that something unexpected… something sinister… is looming.Īn unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex’s shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race’s survival.

While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora’s boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts.

Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her… but he’s missing. With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings’s world changes–literally.ĭreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities.

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